Robust ENSO across a wide range of climates

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5836-5850

  Manucharyan, Georgy E ^a   Fedorov, Alexey V ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; ENSO; Feedback; Heat budgets fluxes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FEEDBACK; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENSO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HEAT BUDGETS/FLUXES; STABILITY INDICES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL CLIMATES; WALKER CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WALKER CIRCULATION;

EID: 84905160389     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00759.1     Document Type: Article

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